Everyone deserves to be in safe and healthy relationship.One in 10 high school students has experienced physical violence from a dating partner in the past year. Teen dating should be safe whether its physical, emotional, and mental. Developing, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive approah to promote respect, nonviolent dating relationships and decrease emotional, physical, and sexual dating violence among young in high-risk urban communties.
Perpetrating dating violence in adolescence increase the risk or perpetrating violence toward a partner in adulthood.
A healthy relationship approach to violence prevention also allows for the consellaton of risk factors that are associated with dating violence to be included. For example, a healthy relationship is not only free from violence, but also from substance abuse and sexual risk taking.
Violence: Teen Power & Control
A relationship is not heathy if there's threats, imtimidation, using social status, anger/emotional abuse, peer pressure, insolation/exclusion, and sexual coerion.
Violent relationships in adolescence can have serious ramifications by placing the victims at higher risk for substance abuse, eating disorders, risky sexual behavior, and adult re-victimization.
Girls and young women between the ages of 16-24 experience the highest rate of intimate partner violence....almost triple the national average.
Teen Relationship Equality
A relationship is healthy if there is respect, shared responsibility, communication, negotiation and fairness, non-threatening behavior, trust and support, independece and autonomy, and honesty & accountability.
Several studies have found that child maltreatment, defined by a combination of family violence indicators such as child abuse, corporal punishment, child sexual abuse, and exposure to domestic violence, is positively correlated with dating abuse perpetration.
Three significantgaps exist in teen dating violence prevention:
Little is known what works to prevent dating violence among youth in urban communities with high crime and economic disadvantage.
Local public health agencies often are not the primary agents for dating violence prevention programming in communties.
A lack of local data on teen dating violence limits communties' ability to monitor and track the problem.
Teen Dating Violence Prevention
Everyone deserves to be in safe and healthy relationship.One in 10 high school students has experienced physical violence from a dating partner in the past year. Teen dating should be safe whether its physical, emotional, and mental. Developing, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive approah to promote respect, nonviolent dating relationships and decrease emotional, physical, and sexual dating violence among young in high-risk urban communties.
Perpetrating dating violence in adolescence increase the risk or perpetrating violence toward a partner in adulthood.
A healthy relationship approach to violence prevention also allows for the consellaton of risk factors that are associated with dating violence to be included. For example, a healthy relationship is not only free from violence, but also from substance abuse and sexual risk taking.
Violence: Teen Power & Control
A relationship is not heathy if there's threats, imtimidation, using social status, anger/emotional abuse, peer pressure, insolation/exclusion, and sexual coerion.
A relationship is healthy if there is respect, shared responsibility, communication, negotiation and fairness, non-threatening behavior, trust and support, independece and autonomy, and honesty & accountability.
Three significantgaps exist in teen dating violence prevention:
www.loveisrespect.org
www.vetoviolence.org
www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention
www.tcfv.org
Created by Sabrina Griffin